- accrue: to grow or accumulate over time
- annotation: a critical or explanatory note or comment, especially for a literary work
- bedlam: a state or scene of uproar and confusion
- covert: hidden, disguised, purposely kept secret; a sheltered place, a hiding place
- debonair: pleasant, courteous, lighthearted; smooth and polished in manner and appearance
- dun: to demand insistently, especially in payment of a debt
- efficacious: effective, producing results
- equanimity: calmness, composure, refusal to panic
- fortuitous: accidental, occuring by a happy chance
- gist: the essential part, the main point, or essence
- gratuitous: freely given
- imperious: overbearing, arrogant
- invective: a strong denunciation or condemnation
- motley: showing great variety
- munificent: extremely generous, lavish
- procrastinate: to delay, put off until later
- provocative: tending to produce a strong feeling or response
- recondite: exceeding ordinary knowledge and understanding
- reprobate: a depraved, vicious, or unprincipled person, scoundrel; wicked, corrupt, unprincipled; to disapprove of,condemn
- sedentary: characterized by or calling for continued sitting; remaining in one place